Saving Graphics File as .ps or .pdf (PR#10403)

Thank you,

I am sorry for my positive contribution to the entropy of R lists ...
I missed the fact that somewhere there is a separate list of Windows
specific bug fixes.
  

Maybe it would be useful that this list be put in evidence close to
the other one.
  

Kind regards

Simone
  

On 11/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
  

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote:

    

I looked at the list of bug fixes before writing and I found that the
only thing close to it is this

o     postscript() was not always ignoring .Postscript.Options in
      the workspace (where it should not have occurred).

but I must admit I did not understand whether it had anything to do
with this bug report.
      

It occurs on Windows only, and the src/gnuwin32/CHANGES file says

BUG FIXES

     o   Saving a plot to Postscript or PDF required the font database
         to have been initialized: this is now done if necessary.

See also

https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/142414.html

(over a month ago).

    

Thanks

Simone

On 11/6/07, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
      

This has been reported several times before and has been fixed in
R-patched some weeks ago.

Uwe Ligges


Jane_Harvill at Baylor.Edu wrote:
        

Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill
Version: 2.6.0
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93)


PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R Graphics window as a
postscript or PDf file through the drop-down menu (File -> Save As ->
Postscript, or File -> Save As -> PDF) results in the error message below being
printed to the R Console.

ERROR MESSAGE:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Error: Invalid font type
In addition: Warning messages:
1: font family not found in PostScript font database
2: font family not found in PostScript font database
-----------------------------------------------------------------

TO RECREATE THE PROBLEM:
1.  Using the R Console, create some graph in R; for example, plot(rnorm(100)).
2.  Select File -> Save As -> PostScript  (or File -> Save As -> PDF).
3.  Supply a file name and click the "Save" button.

FOUR OTHER RELEVANT NOTES:
1.  I checked to see if the same error results when invoking the functions
pdf(file=...) or postscript(file=...).   No error results, and the content of
the output (.ps or .pdf) file produces a duplicate of what appears in the R
Graphics window.

2.  I checked, but did not see any other bug reports in the system that are
relevant to this problem.

3.  Before I submitted this R Bug Report, I reinstalled the PostScript fonts,
and then reinstalled R Version 2.6.0.  This did not change the outcome.

4.  This problem did not exist in previous versions of R on any of my computers.
 It exists on all computers for version 2.6.0 of R.

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